Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tenminhistory
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4973164
This episode of Ten MinuteHistory (like a documentary, only shorter) covers the birth and rise of the British Empire from the reign of Henry VII all the way to the American Revolution. The first part deals with the Tudors and their response to empire in Spain (as well as the Spanish Armada). The second part deals with England's (and later Britain's) establishment of its own empire in North America and India. It then concludes with the Seven Years' War and the American Revolution.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tenminhistory
Ten Minute History is a series of short, ten minute animated narrative documentaries that are designed as revision refreshers or simple introductions to a topic. Please note that these are not meant to be comprehensive and there's a lot of stuff I couldn't fit into the episodes that I would have liked to. Thank you for watching, though, it's always appreciated.

published:26 Sep 2016

views:832760

Buy the book here - http://amzn.to/2xCDWAt
Documentary about the origins of the British empire in the 17th century and how its foundations were laid, not by a grand political strategy but by British pirates, especially in the Caribbean. The British economic style of reinvesting in places like Jamaica led to commercial success as its raw materials – sugar, tobacco and coffee – were in huge demand back at home in Britain.
Seventeenth-centuryIndia was a rich nation, producing a quarter of the world's output, so it is no surprise that the major nations fought over it. The British won the seven-year war with France over supremacy in the colonies, thanks to its superior warships and much stronger finances, which left Britain as the controlling force in India.
We get a glimpse of how the British lived in India, the central role played by the East India Company, and how a commercial base developed into political control.

published:06 Nov 2016

views:103830

At its peak, the British Empire was the largest formal empire that the world had ever known. As such, its power and influence stretched all over the globe; shaping .
History of the British Empire | HistoryDocumentary Films The historiography of the British Empire refers to the studies, sources, critical methods and .
History Of The British Empire - Documentary The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or .
Thank you for watching ! If you enjoyed it, like and subscribe please. You can let me know in the comments what is your opinion on the topic of the video.

Britannia, so the song went, ruled the waves, and for more than a century, much of the planet - in 1922 that was 458 million people, and 33,670000 square kilometres, one quarter of the world's population and total land mass.
But since World War II, the United Kingdom has been in terminal decline.
Today, Britain is a fifth rate military power, and a fifth rate economic force, a country that cannot even win at sports it invented - see cricket, rugby and tennis.
And yet London still decides the fate of 16 overseas territories, with a grand total of 230-odd-thousand people, who still claim to be members of the British Commonwealth.
But Britain also helped decide the fate of millions of Iraqis when Tony Blair, the then British prime minister, unilaterally decided to back George Bush, the then US president, in his illegal invasion.
So what gives this faded island off the coast of Europe the right to act like a global power player? What is so great about Great Britain?
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"The sun never sets on the British Empire" - for years, these words of pride and optimism were used to describe the largest empire in history: Britain. At its pinnacle, the empire spanned every continent and covered one quarter of the Earth's land mass.
Through the centuries, the rulers of this enormous powerhouse used extraordinary engineering feats to become an industrial and military titan, loaded with riches.
Some of their many pioneering accomplishments include the world's first locomotive, a superhighway of underground sewers, the imposing and grand Westminster Palace, and the most powerful and technically advanced navy in the age of sail.
As scandal, violence and drama consumed British royalty at home, the empire surged ahead with these works of engineering innovation that paved the way for the modern world.
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Jeremy Paxman traces the story of the greatest empire the world has ever known: the British Empire. He continues his personal account of Britain's empire by looking at how traders, conquerors and settlers spread the British way of doing things around the world - in particular how they created a very British idea of home.
He begins in India, where early traders wore Indian costume and took Indian wives. Their descendants still cherish their mixed heritage. Victorian values put a stop to that as interracial mixing became taboo.
In Singapore, he visits a club where British colonials gathered together, in Canada he finds a town whose inhabitants are still fiercely proud of the traditions of their Scottish ancestors, in Kenya he meets the descendants of the first white settlers - men whose presence came to be bitterly resented as pressure for African independence grew.
And he traces the story of an Indian family in Leicester whose migrations have been determined by the changing fortunes of the British empire.

British Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom. It originated with the overseas possessions and trading posts established by England between the late 16th and early 18th centuries. At its height, it was the largest empire in history and, for over a century, was the foremost global power. By 1922 the British Empire held sway over about 458 million people, one-fifth of the world's population at the time, and covered more than 13,000,000sqmi (33,670,000km2), almost a quarter of the Earth's total land area. As a result, its political, legal, linguistic and cultural legacy is widespread. At the peak of its power, the phrase "the empire on which the sun never sets" was often used to describe the British Empire, because its expanse around the globe meant that the sun was always shining on at least one of its territories.

During the Age of Discovery in the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal and Spain pioneered European exploration of the globe, and in the process established large overseas empires. Envious of the great wealth these empires generated, England, France, and the Netherlands began to establish colonies and trade networks of their own in the Americas and Asia. A series of wars in the 17th and 18th centuries with the Netherlands and France left England (and then, following union between England and Scotland in 1707, Great Britain) the dominant colonial power in North America and India.

Aside from the more formal usage, the term "empire" can also be used to refer to a large-scale business enterprise (e.g. a transnational corporation), a political organisation controlled by a single individual (a political boss) or a group (political bosses). The term "empire" is associated with other words such as imperialism, colonialism, and globalization. Empire is often used to describe a displeasure to overpowering situations. The effects of imperialism exist throughout the world today.

An imperial political structure can be established and maintained in two ways: (i) as a territorial empire of direct conquest and control with force or (ii) as a coercive, hegemonic empire of indirect conquest and control with power. The former method provides greater tribute and direct political control, yet limits further expansion because it absorbs military forces to fixed garrisons. The latter method provides less tribute and indirect control, but avails military forces for further expansion. Territorial empires (e.g., the Mongol Empire and Median Empire) tend to be contiguous areas. The term, on occasion, has been applied to maritime empires or thalassocracies, (e.g., the Athenian and British empires) with looser structures and more scattered territories. Empires are usually larger than kingdoms.

Jeremy Paxman

Jeremy Dickson Paxman (born 11 May 1950) is an English broadcaster, journalist and author. He has worked for the BBC since 1972 and is known for his forthright and abrasive interviewing style, particularly when interrogating politicians. His regular appearances on the BBC Two's Newsnight programme were sometimes criticised as aggressive, intimidating and condescending, yet also applauded as tough and incisive. He is the question master of University Challenge, succeeding Bamber Gascoigne when the programme was revived in 1994.

At the end of April 2014, Paxman announced that he was to leave Newsnight in June after 25 years of presenting the programme.

Ten Minute History - The Early British Empire (Short Documentary)

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tenminhistory
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4973164
This episode of Ten MinuteHistory (like a documentary, only shorter) covers the birth and rise of the British Empire from the reign of Henry VII all the way to the American Revolution. The first part deals with the Tudors and their response to empire in Spain (as well as the Spanish Armada). The second part deals with England's (and later Britain's) establishment of its own empire in North America and India. It then concludes with the Seven Years' War and the American Revolution.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tenminhistory
Ten Minute History is a series of short, ten minute animated narrative documentaries that are designed as revision refreshers or simple introductions to a topic. Please note that these are not meant to be comprehensive and there's a lot of stuff I couldn't fit into the episodes that I would have liked to. Thank you for watching, though, it's always appreciated.

48:20

Empire How Britain Made the Modern World - Why Britain ep 1/6 HD

Empire How Britain Made the Modern World - Why Britain ep 1/6 HD

Empire How Britain Made the Modern World - Why Britain ep 1/6 HD

Buy the book here - http://amzn.to/2xCDWAt
Documentary about the origins of the British empire in the 17th century and how its foundations were laid, not by a grand political strategy but by British pirates, especially in the Caribbean. The British economic style of reinvesting in places like Jamaica led to commercial success as its raw materials – sugar, tobacco and coffee – were in huge demand back at home in Britain.
Seventeenth-centuryIndia was a rich nation, producing a quarter of the world's output, so it is no surprise that the major nations fought over it. The British won the seven-year war with France over supremacy in the colonies, thanks to its superior warships and much stronger finances, which left Britain as the controlling force in India.
We get a glimpse of how the British lived in India, the central role played by the East India Company, and how a commercial base developed into political control.

1:05:31

british empire history Documentaries 2016

british empire history Documentaries 2016

british empire history Documentaries 2016

At its peak, the British Empire was the largest formal empire that the world had ever known. As such, its power and influence stretched all over the globe; shaping .
History of the British Empire | HistoryDocumentary Films The historiography of the British Empire refers to the studies, sources, critical methods and .
History Of The British Empire - Documentary The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or .
Thank you for watching ! If you enjoyed it, like and subscribe please. You can let me know in the comments what is your opinion on the topic of the video.

51:58

The Fall of the British Empire 1 of 3

The Fall of the British Empire 1 of 3

The Fall of the British Empire 1 of 3

🇬🇧 The Sun Never Sets | Empire

Britannia, so the song went, ruled the waves, and for more than a century, much of the planet - in 1922 that was 458 million people, and 33,670000 square kilometres, one quarter of the world's population and total land mass.
But since World War II, the United Kingdom has been in terminal decline.
Today, Britain is a fifth rate military power, and a fifth rate economic force, a country that cannot even win at sports it invented - see cricket, rugby and tennis.
And yet London still decides the fate of 16 overseas territories, with a grand total of 230-odd-thousand people, who still claim to be members of the British Commonwealth.
But Britain also helped decide the fate of millions of Iraqis when Tony Blair, the then British prime minister, unilaterally decided to back George Bush, the then US president, in his illegal invasion.
So what gives this faded island off the coast of Europe the right to act like a global power player? What is so great about Great Britain?
Social Media links:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera
Instagram: https://instagram.com/aljazeera/?ref=...
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ajenglish
Website: http://www.aljazeera.com/
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Britain Blood and Steel: Engineering an Empire

"The sun never sets on the British Empire" - for years, these words of pride and optimism were used to describe the largest empire in history: Britain. At its pinnacle, the empire spanned every continent and covered one quarter of the Earth's land mass.
Through the centuries, the rulers of this enormous powerhouse used extraordinary engineering feats to become an industrial and military titan, loaded with riches.
Some of their many pioneering accomplishments include the world's first locomotive, a superhighway of underground sewers, the imposing and grand Westminster Palace, and the most powerful and technically advanced navy in the age of sail.
As scandal, violence and drama consumed British royalty at home, the empire surged ahead with these works of engineering innovation that paved the way for the modern world.
SUBSCRIBE, COMMENT, LIKE, FAV, SHARE !!!!

Jeremy Paxman traces the story of the greatest empire the world has ever known: the British Empire. He continues his personal account of Britain's empire by looking at how traders, conquerors and settlers spread the British way of doing things around the world - in particular how they created a very British idea of home.
He begins in India, where early traders wore Indian costume and took Indian wives. Their descendants still cherish their mixed heritage. Victorian values put a stop to that as interracial mixing became taboo.
In Singapore, he visits a club where British colonials gathered together, in Canada he finds a town whose inhabitants are still fiercely proud of the traditions of their Scottish ancestors, in Kenya he meets the descendants of the first white settlers - men whose presence came to be bitterly resented as pressure for African independence grew.
And he traces the story of an Indian family in Leicester whose migrations have been determined by the changing fortunes of the British empire.

10:00

Ten Minute History - The Late British Empire (Short Documentary)

Ten Minute History - The Late British Empire (Short Documentary)

Ten Minute History - The Late British Empire (Short Documentary)

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tenminhistory
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4973164
This episode of Ten MinuteHistory (like a documentary, only shorter) covers the growth of the British Empire after the American Revolution all the way to its end with the handover of Hong Kong. The first half deals with the Pax Britannica and British global hegemony through the Sepoy mutiny. The second half deals with the apex of the empire after World War One and its subsequent decline and fall.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tenminhistory
Ten Minute History is a series of short, ten minute animated narrative documentaries that are designed as revision refreshers or simple introductions to a topic. Please note that these are not meant to be comprehensive and there's a lot of stuff I couldn't fit into the episodes that I would have liked to. Thank you for watching, though, it's always appreciated.

58:54

BBC Empire Episode 3: Playing the Game

BBC Empire Episode 3: Playing the Game

BBC Empire Episode 3: Playing the Game

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10:01

The British Empire in Colour 1/3 [Part 1]

The British Empire in Colour 1/3 [Part 1]

The British Empire in Colour 1/3 [Part 1]

A documentary of the British Empire recorded in color gives us an astounding look at what was once the largest standing Empire in the world as it slowly fell apart.

4:02:18

History of the British Empire - Full Documentary

History of the British Empire - Full Documentary

History of the British Empire - Full Documentary

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom. It originated with the overseas possessions.
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To fully appreciate the significance of the Commonwealth, Britain's global position, it is important to understand its origins from the British Empire. Technically . TRY AMAZON PRIME 30.
To fully appreciate the significance of the Commonwealth, Britain's global position, it is important to understand its origins from the British Empire. Technically . To fully appreciate the.

49:05

BRITISH EMPIRE IN COLOUR - PART 3

BRITISH EMPIRE IN COLOUR - PART 3

BRITISH EMPIRE IN COLOUR - PART 3

For the most part of 19th and 20th Century, there was little doubt that the most powerful colonial empire of all was the British Empire. British had started their colonial conquest in late 16th century and continued it well into the 20th century. By the year 1922, Britain had colonies on every continent of the world. Britain had dominion over 458 million people which at that time was the one fifth of the global population at that time. Total area under the rule of British was 33,700,000 square kms, approximately a quarter of earths total land area. Such was the prowess of the British empire that it was said that sun never sets in British empire, when one part of the British empire was engulfed in darkness of the night, it would be day in some other British colony.
The Jewel in the British Crown, India was the empire's most cherished and most valuable colony. On surface everything looke like it had always looked. Colonial masters were still as colonial as ever and their Indian subjects still as loyal as ever. But after, 200 years of oppression, segregation and discrimination, crack have started to appear. The Jewel had started to crack at the edges.
This three episode series focuses on the three distinct time periods of transformation of British Empire during the 21st Century
EPISODE 1: The rise of British Empire
Britain's rise to the the top of all colonial powers in the world. And on British Empire's most cherished and valued possession, India. But by 1930, NationalistIndependence movement started by Mahatama Gandhi was gaining momentum throughout India and was challenging the Empire.
EPISODE 2: The gradual decline of British Empire.
Britain has lost its prized possession, the jewel in its Crown, India. But loss of India signals the decline of yesterday's colonial Super power. Commonwealth is put to shame by racist citizens of Britain as they oppose the immigration of citizens of British commonwealth nations like India, Pakistan, Jamaica, Barbados and Malaya. The very same people who were living under British Rule in their own country.The Palestine question?
EPISODE 3: End of British Empire:
British Monarchs and Government are embarrassed by the shameful act of racial discrimination by British citizens. And White only policy of Australian Government. Kenyan independence after years of violent civil war. Britain grants independence to Hong Kong, the last British Colony.

1:52:15

British Empire 20th Century in Colour: Geographical Height and End (Highlights)

British Empire 20th Century in Colour: Geographical Height and End (Highlights)

British Empire 20th Century in Colour: Geographical Height and End (Highlights)

BBC Empire - Episode 4 Making a Fortune Jeremy Paxman

Jeremy Paxman continues his personal account of Britain's empire, looking at how the empire began as a pirates' treasure hunt, grew into an informal empire based on trade and developed into a global financial network. He travels from Jamaica, where sugar made plantation owners rich on the backs of African slaves, to Calcutta, where British traders became the new princes of India.Jeremy then heads to Hong Kong, where British-supplied opium threatened to turn the Chinese into a nation of drug addicts - leading to the brutal opium wars, in which Britain triumphed and took the island of Hong Kong as booty.
Unfair trading helped spark the independence movement in India, led by Mahatma Gandhi; in a former cotton spinning town in Lancashire, Jeremy meets two women who remember Gandhi's extraordinary visit in 1931.

54:33

Scramble For Africa in HD

Scramble For Africa in HD

Scramble For Africa in HD

Recommended further reading - http://amzn.to/2xGHWjg http://amzn.to/2zaQHn1
"The Scramble for Africa" The last years of Queen Victoria's reign when British imperial strength seemed assured following military victories in China and the Sudan. However, the emergence of a more gung-ho approach to war following the downfall of cautious prime minister Gladstone proved costly. One of the key figures to profit from such an opportunist climate, Cecil Rhodes, founder of the biggest Diamond mining company in the world, wanted more influence in southern Africa, and his attack on Dutch settlers led to the Boer War.

The Great British Empire Ruled 1/3 - FULL DOCUMENTARY

Ten Minute History - The Early British Empire (Short Documentary)

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tenminhistory
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4973164
This episode of Ten MinuteHistory (like a documentary, only shorter) covers the birth and rise of the British Empire from the reign of Henry VII all the way to the American Revolution. The first part deals with the Tudors and their response to empire in Spain (as well as the Spanish Armada). The second part deals with England's (and later Britain's) establishment of its own empire in North America and India. It then concludes with the Seven Years' War and the American Revolution.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tenminhistory
Ten Minute History is a series of short, ten minute animated narrative documentaries that are designed as revision refreshers or simple introductions to a topic. Please note tha...

published: 26 Sep 2016

Empire How Britain Made the Modern World - Why Britain ep 1/6 HD

Buy the book here - http://amzn.to/2xCDWAt
Documentary about the origins of the British empire in the 17th century and how its foundations were laid, not by a grand political strategy but by British pirates, especially in the Caribbean. The British economic style of reinvesting in places like Jamaica led to commercial success as its raw materials – sugar, tobacco and coffee – were in huge demand back at home in Britain.
Seventeenth-centuryIndia was a rich nation, producing a quarter of the world's output, so it is no surprise that the major nations fought over it. The British won the seven-year war with France over supremacy in the colonies, thanks to its superior warships and much stronger finances, which left Britain as the controlling force in India.
We get a glimpse of how the Brit...

published: 06 Nov 2016

british empire history Documentaries 2016

At its peak, the British Empire was the largest formal empire that the world had ever known. As such, its power and influence stretched all over the globe; shaping .
History of the British Empire | HistoryDocumentary Films The historiography of the British Empire refers to the studies, sources, critical methods and .
History Of The British Empire - Documentary The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or .
Thank you for watching ! If you enjoyed it, like and subscribe please. You can let me know in the comments what is your opinion on the topic of the video.

published: 19 Jun 2016

The Fall of the British Empire 1 of 3

🇬🇧 The Sun Never Sets | Empire

Britannia, so the song went, ruled the waves, and for more than a century, much of the planet - in 1922 that was 458 million people, and 33,670000 square kilometres, one quarter of the world's population and total land mass.
But since World War II, the United Kingdom has been in terminal decline.
Today, Britain is a fifth rate military power, and a fifth rate economic force, a country that cannot even win at sports it invented - see cricket, rugby and tennis.
And yet London still decides the fate of 16 overseas territories, with a grand total of 230-odd-thousand people, who still claim to be members of the British Commonwealth.
But Britain also helped decide the fate of millions of Iraqis when Tony Blair, the then British prime minister, unilaterally decided to back George Bush, the...

published: 27 May 2010

The Great British Empire - Part 2/3 - FULL DOCUMENTARY

Britain Blood and Steel: Engineering an Empire

"The sun never sets on the British Empire" - for years, these words of pride and optimism were used to describe the largest empire in history: Britain. At its pinnacle, the empire spanned every continent and covered one quarter of the Earth's land mass.
Through the centuries, the rulers of this enormous powerhouse used extraordinary engineering feats to become an industrial and military titan, loaded with riches.
Some of their many pioneering accomplishments include the world's first locomotive, a superhighway of underground sewers, the imposing and grand Westminster Palace, and the most powerful and technically advanced navy in the age of sail.
As scandal, violence and drama consumed British royalty at home, the empire surged ahead with these works of engineering innovation that paved ...

The History Of The British Empire

Jeremy Paxman traces the story of the greatest empire the world has ever known: the British Empire. He continues his personal account of Britain's empire by looking at how traders, conquerors and settlers spread the British way of doing things around the world - in particular how they created a very British idea of home.
He begins in India, where early traders wore Indian costume and took Indian wives. Their descendants still cherish their mixed heritage. Victorian values put a stop to that as interracial mixing became taboo.
In Singapore, he visits a club where British colonials gathered together, in Canada he finds a town whose inhabitants are still fiercely proud of the traditions of their Scottish ancestors, in Kenya he meets the descendants of the first white settlers - men whose pr...

published: 17 Aug 2014

Ten Minute History - The Late British Empire (Short Documentary)

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tenminhistory
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4973164
This episode of Ten MinuteHistory (like a documentary, only shorter) covers the growth of the British Empire after the American Revolution all the way to its end with the handover of Hong Kong. The first half deals with the Pax Britannica and British global hegemony through the Sepoy mutiny. The second half deals with the apex of the empire after World War One and its subsequent decline and fall.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tenminhistory
Ten Minute History is a series of short, ten minute animated narrative documentaries that are designed as revision refreshers or simple introductions to a topic. Please note that these are not meant to be comprehensive and there's a lot of stuff I couldn't fit i...

published: 18 Nov 2016

BBC Empire Episode 3: Playing the Game

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published: 24 May 2017

The British Empire in Colour 1/3 [Part 1]

A documentary of the British Empire recorded in color gives us an astounding look at what was once the largest standing Empire in the world as it slowly fell apart.

published: 12 Oct 2013

History of the British Empire - Full Documentary

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom. It originated with the overseas possessions.
SUBSCRIBE TO ALWAYS FIND US:
To fully appreciate the significance of the Commonwealth, Britain's global position, it is important to understand its origins from the British Empire. Technically . TRY AMAZON PRIME 30.
To fully appreciate the significance of the Commonwealth, Britain's global position, it is important to understand its origins from the British Empire. Technically . To fully appreciate the.

published: 20 Dec 2017

BRITISH EMPIRE IN COLOUR - PART 3

For the most part of 19th and 20th Century, there was little doubt that the most powerful colonial empire of all was the British Empire. British had started their colonial conquest in late 16th century and continued it well into the 20th century. By the year 1922, Britain had colonies on every continent of the world. Britain had dominion over 458 million people which at that time was the one fifth of the global population at that time. Total area under the rule of British was 33,700,000 square kms, approximately a quarter of earths total land area. Such was the prowess of the British empire that it was said that sun never sets in British empire, when one part of the British empire was engulfed in darkness of the night, it would be day in some other British colony.
The Jewel in the Britis...

published: 14 Jun 2014

British Empire 20th Century in Colour: Geographical Height and End (Highlights)

BBC Empire - Episode 4 Making a Fortune Jeremy Paxman

Jeremy Paxman continues his personal account of Britain's empire, looking at how the empire began as a pirates' treasure hunt, grew into an informal empire based on trade and developed into a global financial network. He travels from Jamaica, where sugar made plantation owners rich on the backs of African slaves, to Calcutta, where British traders became the new princes of India.Jeremy then heads to Hong Kong, where British-supplied opium threatened to turn the Chinese into a nation of drug addicts - leading to the brutal opium wars, in which Britain triumphed and took the island of Hong Kong as booty.
Unfair trading helped spark the independence movement in India, led by Mahatma Gandhi; in a former cotton spinning town in Lancashire, Jeremy meets two women who remember Gandhi's extraor...

published: 29 Aug 2014

Scramble For Africa in HD

Recommended further reading - http://amzn.to/2xGHWjg http://amzn.to/2zaQHn1
"The Scramble for Africa" The last years of Queen Victoria's reign when British imperial strength seemed assured following military victories in China and the Sudan. However, the emergence of a more gung-ho approach to war following the downfall of cautious prime minister Gladstone proved costly. One of the key figures to profit from such an opportunist climate, Cecil Rhodes, founder of the biggest Diamond mining company in the world, wanted more influence in southern Africa, and his attack on Dutch settlers led to the Boer War.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tenminhistory
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4973164
This episode of Ten MinuteHistory (like a documentary, only shorter) covers the birth and rise of the British Empire from the reign of Henry VII all the way to the American Revolution. The first part deals with the Tudors and their response to empire in Spain (as well as the Spanish Armada). The second part deals with England's (and later Britain's) establishment of its own empire in North America and India. It then concludes with the Seven Years' War and the American Revolution.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tenminhistory
Ten Minute History is a series of short, ten minute animated narrative documentaries that are designed as revision refreshers or simple introductions to a topic. Please note that these are not meant to be comprehensive and there's a lot of stuff I couldn't fit into the episodes that I would have liked to. Thank you for watching, though, it's always appreciated.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tenminhistory
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4973164
This episode of Ten MinuteHistory (like a documentary, only shorter) covers the birth and rise of the British Empire from the reign of Henry VII all the way to the American Revolution. The first part deals with the Tudors and their response to empire in Spain (as well as the Spanish Armada). The second part deals with England's (and later Britain's) establishment of its own empire in North America and India. It then concludes with the Seven Years' War and the American Revolution.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tenminhistory
Ten Minute History is a series of short, ten minute animated narrative documentaries that are designed as revision refreshers or simple introductions to a topic. Please note that these are not meant to be comprehensive and there's a lot of stuff I couldn't fit into the episodes that I would have liked to. Thank you for watching, though, it's always appreciated.

Buy the book here - http://amzn.to/2xCDWAt
Documentary about the origins of the British empire in the 17th century and how its foundations were laid, not by a grand political strategy but by British pirates, especially in the Caribbean. The British economic style of reinvesting in places like Jamaica led to commercial success as its raw materials – sugar, tobacco and coffee – were in huge demand back at home in Britain.
Seventeenth-centuryIndia was a rich nation, producing a quarter of the world's output, so it is no surprise that the major nations fought over it. The British won the seven-year war with France over supremacy in the colonies, thanks to its superior warships and much stronger finances, which left Britain as the controlling force in India.
We get a glimpse of how the British lived in India, the central role played by the East India Company, and how a commercial base developed into political control.

Buy the book here - http://amzn.to/2xCDWAt
Documentary about the origins of the British empire in the 17th century and how its foundations were laid, not by a grand political strategy but by British pirates, especially in the Caribbean. The British economic style of reinvesting in places like Jamaica led to commercial success as its raw materials – sugar, tobacco and coffee – were in huge demand back at home in Britain.
Seventeenth-centuryIndia was a rich nation, producing a quarter of the world's output, so it is no surprise that the major nations fought over it. The British won the seven-year war with France over supremacy in the colonies, thanks to its superior warships and much stronger finances, which left Britain as the controlling force in India.
We get a glimpse of how the British lived in India, the central role played by the East India Company, and how a commercial base developed into political control.

british empire history Documentaries 2016

At its peak, the British Empire was the largest formal empire that the world had ever known. As such, its power and influence stretched all over the globe; shap...

At its peak, the British Empire was the largest formal empire that the world had ever known. As such, its power and influence stretched all over the globe; shaping .
History of the British Empire | HistoryDocumentary Films The historiography of the British Empire refers to the studies, sources, critical methods and .
History Of The British Empire - Documentary The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or .
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At its peak, the British Empire was the largest formal empire that the world had ever known. As such, its power and influence stretched all over the globe; shaping .
History of the British Empire | HistoryDocumentary Films The historiography of the British Empire refers to the studies, sources, critical methods and .
History Of The British Empire - Documentary The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or .
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🇬🇧 The Sun Never Sets | Empire

Britannia, so the song went, ruled the waves, and for more than a century, much of the planet - in 1922 that was 458 million people, and 33,670000 square kilome...

Britannia, so the song went, ruled the waves, and for more than a century, much of the planet - in 1922 that was 458 million people, and 33,670000 square kilometres, one quarter of the world's population and total land mass.
But since World War II, the United Kingdom has been in terminal decline.
Today, Britain is a fifth rate military power, and a fifth rate economic force, a country that cannot even win at sports it invented - see cricket, rugby and tennis.
And yet London still decides the fate of 16 overseas territories, with a grand total of 230-odd-thousand people, who still claim to be members of the British Commonwealth.
But Britain also helped decide the fate of millions of Iraqis when Tony Blair, the then British prime minister, unilaterally decided to back George Bush, the then US president, in his illegal invasion.
So what gives this faded island off the coast of Europe the right to act like a global power player? What is so great about Great Britain?
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Britannia, so the song went, ruled the waves, and for more than a century, much of the planet - in 1922 that was 458 million people, and 33,670000 square kilometres, one quarter of the world's population and total land mass.
But since World War II, the United Kingdom has been in terminal decline.
Today, Britain is a fifth rate military power, and a fifth rate economic force, a country that cannot even win at sports it invented - see cricket, rugby and tennis.
And yet London still decides the fate of 16 overseas territories, with a grand total of 230-odd-thousand people, who still claim to be members of the British Commonwealth.
But Britain also helped decide the fate of millions of Iraqis when Tony Blair, the then British prime minister, unilaterally decided to back George Bush, the then US president, in his illegal invasion.
So what gives this faded island off the coast of Europe the right to act like a global power player? What is so great about Great Britain?
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Britain Blood and Steel: Engineering an Empire

"The sun never sets on the British Empire" - for years, these words of pride and optimism were used to describe the largest empire in history: Britain. At its p...

"The sun never sets on the British Empire" - for years, these words of pride and optimism were used to describe the largest empire in history: Britain. At its pinnacle, the empire spanned every continent and covered one quarter of the Earth's land mass.
Through the centuries, the rulers of this enormous powerhouse used extraordinary engineering feats to become an industrial and military titan, loaded with riches.
Some of their many pioneering accomplishments include the world's first locomotive, a superhighway of underground sewers, the imposing and grand Westminster Palace, and the most powerful and technically advanced navy in the age of sail.
As scandal, violence and drama consumed British royalty at home, the empire surged ahead with these works of engineering innovation that paved the way for the modern world.
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"The sun never sets on the British Empire" - for years, these words of pride and optimism were used to describe the largest empire in history: Britain. At its pinnacle, the empire spanned every continent and covered one quarter of the Earth's land mass.
Through the centuries, the rulers of this enormous powerhouse used extraordinary engineering feats to become an industrial and military titan, loaded with riches.
Some of their many pioneering accomplishments include the world's first locomotive, a superhighway of underground sewers, the imposing and grand Westminster Palace, and the most powerful and technically advanced navy in the age of sail.
As scandal, violence and drama consumed British royalty at home, the empire surged ahead with these works of engineering innovation that paved the way for the modern world.
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Jeremy Paxman traces the story of the greatest empire the world has ever known: the British Empire. He continues his personal account of Britain's empire by looking at how traders, conquerors and settlers spread the British way of doing things around the world - in particular how they created a very British idea of home.
He begins in India, where early traders wore Indian costume and took Indian wives. Their descendants still cherish their mixed heritage. Victorian values put a stop to that as interracial mixing became taboo.
In Singapore, he visits a club where British colonials gathered together, in Canada he finds a town whose inhabitants are still fiercely proud of the traditions of their Scottish ancestors, in Kenya he meets the descendants of the first white settlers - men whose presence came to be bitterly resented as pressure for African independence grew.
And he traces the story of an Indian family in Leicester whose migrations have been determined by the changing fortunes of the British empire.

Jeremy Paxman traces the story of the greatest empire the world has ever known: the British Empire. He continues his personal account of Britain's empire by looking at how traders, conquerors and settlers spread the British way of doing things around the world - in particular how they created a very British idea of home.
He begins in India, where early traders wore Indian costume and took Indian wives. Their descendants still cherish their mixed heritage. Victorian values put a stop to that as interracial mixing became taboo.
In Singapore, he visits a club where British colonials gathered together, in Canada he finds a town whose inhabitants are still fiercely proud of the traditions of their Scottish ancestors, in Kenya he meets the descendants of the first white settlers - men whose presence came to be bitterly resented as pressure for African independence grew.
And he traces the story of an Indian family in Leicester whose migrations have been determined by the changing fortunes of the British empire.

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This episode of Ten MinuteHistory (like a documentary, only shorter) covers the growth of the British Empire after the American Revolution all the way to its end with the handover of Hong Kong. The first half deals with the Pax Britannica and British global hegemony through the Sepoy mutiny. The second half deals with the apex of the empire after World War One and its subsequent decline and fall.
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Ten Minute History is a series of short, ten minute animated narrative documentaries that are designed as revision refreshers or simple introductions to a topic. Please note that these are not meant to be comprehensive and there's a lot of stuff I couldn't fit into the episodes that I would have liked to. Thank you for watching, though, it's always appreciated.

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This episode of Ten MinuteHistory (like a documentary, only shorter) covers the growth of the British Empire after the American Revolution all the way to its end with the handover of Hong Kong. The first half deals with the Pax Britannica and British global hegemony through the Sepoy mutiny. The second half deals with the apex of the empire after World War One and its subsequent decline and fall.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tenminhistory
Ten Minute History is a series of short, ten minute animated narrative documentaries that are designed as revision refreshers or simple introductions to a topic. Please note that these are not meant to be comprehensive and there's a lot of stuff I couldn't fit into the episodes that I would have liked to. Thank you for watching, though, it's always appreciated.

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom. It originated with the overseas possessions.
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To fully appreciate the significance of the Commonwealth, Britain's global position, it is important to understand its origins from the British Empire. Technically . TRY AMAZON PRIME 30.
To fully appreciate the significance of the Commonwealth, Britain's global position, it is important to understand its origins from the British Empire. Technically . To fully appreciate the.

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom. It originated with the overseas possessions.
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To fully appreciate the significance of the Commonwealth, Britain's global position, it is important to understand its origins from the British Empire. Technically . TRY AMAZON PRIME 30.
To fully appreciate the significance of the Commonwealth, Britain's global position, it is important to understand its origins from the British Empire. Technically . To fully appreciate the.

For the most part of 19th and 20th Century, there was little doubt that the most powerful colonial empire of all was the British Empire. British had started their colonial conquest in late 16th century and continued it well into the 20th century. By the year 1922, Britain had colonies on every continent of the world. Britain had dominion over 458 million people which at that time was the one fifth of the global population at that time. Total area under the rule of British was 33,700,000 square kms, approximately a quarter of earths total land area. Such was the prowess of the British empire that it was said that sun never sets in British empire, when one part of the British empire was engulfed in darkness of the night, it would be day in some other British colony.
The Jewel in the British Crown, India was the empire's most cherished and most valuable colony. On surface everything looke like it had always looked. Colonial masters were still as colonial as ever and their Indian subjects still as loyal as ever. But after, 200 years of oppression, segregation and discrimination, crack have started to appear. The Jewel had started to crack at the edges.
This three episode series focuses on the three distinct time periods of transformation of British Empire during the 21st Century
EPISODE 1: The rise of British Empire
Britain's rise to the the top of all colonial powers in the world. And on British Empire's most cherished and valued possession, India. But by 1930, NationalistIndependence movement started by Mahatama Gandhi was gaining momentum throughout India and was challenging the Empire.
EPISODE 2: The gradual decline of British Empire.
Britain has lost its prized possession, the jewel in its Crown, India. But loss of India signals the decline of yesterday's colonial Super power. Commonwealth is put to shame by racist citizens of Britain as they oppose the immigration of citizens of British commonwealth nations like India, Pakistan, Jamaica, Barbados and Malaya. The very same people who were living under British Rule in their own country.The Palestine question?
EPISODE 3: End of British Empire:
British Monarchs and Government are embarrassed by the shameful act of racial discrimination by British citizens. And White only policy of Australian Government. Kenyan independence after years of violent civil war. Britain grants independence to Hong Kong, the last British Colony.

For the most part of 19th and 20th Century, there was little doubt that the most powerful colonial empire of all was the British Empire. British had started their colonial conquest in late 16th century and continued it well into the 20th century. By the year 1922, Britain had colonies on every continent of the world. Britain had dominion over 458 million people which at that time was the one fifth of the global population at that time. Total area under the rule of British was 33,700,000 square kms, approximately a quarter of earths total land area. Such was the prowess of the British empire that it was said that sun never sets in British empire, when one part of the British empire was engulfed in darkness of the night, it would be day in some other British colony.
The Jewel in the British Crown, India was the empire's most cherished and most valuable colony. On surface everything looke like it had always looked. Colonial masters were still as colonial as ever and their Indian subjects still as loyal as ever. But after, 200 years of oppression, segregation and discrimination, crack have started to appear. The Jewel had started to crack at the edges.
This three episode series focuses on the three distinct time periods of transformation of British Empire during the 21st Century
EPISODE 1: The rise of British Empire
Britain's rise to the the top of all colonial powers in the world. And on British Empire's most cherished and valued possession, India. But by 1930, NationalistIndependence movement started by Mahatama Gandhi was gaining momentum throughout India and was challenging the Empire.
EPISODE 2: The gradual decline of British Empire.
Britain has lost its prized possession, the jewel in its Crown, India. But loss of India signals the decline of yesterday's colonial Super power. Commonwealth is put to shame by racist citizens of Britain as they oppose the immigration of citizens of British commonwealth nations like India, Pakistan, Jamaica, Barbados and Malaya. The very same people who were living under British Rule in their own country.The Palestine question?
EPISODE 3: End of British Empire:
British Monarchs and Government are embarrassed by the shameful act of racial discrimination by British citizens. And White only policy of Australian Government. Kenyan independence after years of violent civil war. Britain grants independence to Hong Kong, the last British Colony.

BBC Empire - Episode 4 Making a Fortune Jeremy Paxman

Jeremy Paxman continues his personal account of Britain's empire, looking at how the empire began as a pirates' treasure hunt, grew into an informal empire base...

Jeremy Paxman continues his personal account of Britain's empire, looking at how the empire began as a pirates' treasure hunt, grew into an informal empire based on trade and developed into a global financial network. He travels from Jamaica, where sugar made plantation owners rich on the backs of African slaves, to Calcutta, where British traders became the new princes of India.Jeremy then heads to Hong Kong, where British-supplied opium threatened to turn the Chinese into a nation of drug addicts - leading to the brutal opium wars, in which Britain triumphed and took the island of Hong Kong as booty.
Unfair trading helped spark the independence movement in India, led by Mahatma Gandhi; in a former cotton spinning town in Lancashire, Jeremy meets two women who remember Gandhi's extraordinary visit in 1931.

Jeremy Paxman continues his personal account of Britain's empire, looking at how the empire began as a pirates' treasure hunt, grew into an informal empire based on trade and developed into a global financial network. He travels from Jamaica, where sugar made plantation owners rich on the backs of African slaves, to Calcutta, where British traders became the new princes of India.Jeremy then heads to Hong Kong, where British-supplied opium threatened to turn the Chinese into a nation of drug addicts - leading to the brutal opium wars, in which Britain triumphed and took the island of Hong Kong as booty.
Unfair trading helped spark the independence movement in India, led by Mahatma Gandhi; in a former cotton spinning town in Lancashire, Jeremy meets two women who remember Gandhi's extraordinary visit in 1931.

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"The Scramble for Africa" The last years of Queen Victoria's reign when British imperial strength seemed assured following military victories in China and the Sudan. However, the emergence of a more gung-ho approach to war following the downfall of cautious prime minister Gladstone proved costly. One of the key figures to profit from such an opportunist climate, Cecil Rhodes, founder of the biggest Diamond mining company in the world, wanted more influence in southern Africa, and his attack on Dutch settlers led to the Boer War.

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"The Scramble for Africa" The last years of Queen Victoria's reign when British imperial strength seemed assured following military victories in China and the Sudan. However, the emergence of a more gung-ho approach to war following the downfall of cautious prime minister Gladstone proved costly. One of the key figures to profit from such an opportunist climate, Cecil Rhodes, founder of the biggest Diamond mining company in the world, wanted more influence in southern Africa, and his attack on Dutch settlers led to the Boer War.

Ten Minute History - The Early British Empire (Short Documentary)

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This episode of Ten MinuteHistory (like a documentary, only shorter) covers the birth and rise of the British Empire from the reign of Henry VII all the way to the American Revolution. The first part deals with the Tudors and their response to empire in Spain (as well as the Spanish Armada). The second part deals with England's (and later Britain's) establishment of its own empire in North America and India. It then concludes with the Seven Years' War and the American Revolution.
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Ten Minute History is a series of short, ten minute animated narrative documentaries that are designed as revision refreshers or simple introductions to a topic. Please note that these are not meant to be comprehensive and there's a lot of stuff I couldn't fit into the episodes that I would have liked to. Thank you for watching, though, it's always appreciated.

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Empire How Britain Made the Modern World - Why Britain ep 1/6 HD

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Documentary about the origins of the British e...

Empire How Britain Made the Modern World - Why Britain ep 1/6 HD

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Documentary about the origins of the British empire in the 17th century and how its foundations were laid, not by a grand political strategy but by British pirates, especially in the Caribbean. The British economic style of reinvesting in places like Jamaica led to commercial success as its raw materials – sugar, tobacco and coffee – were in huge demand back at home in Britain.
Seventeenth-centuryIndia was a rich nation, producing a quarter of the world's output, so it is no surprise that the major nations fought over it. The British won the seven-year war with France over supremacy in the colonies, thanks to its superior warships and much stronger finances, which left Britain as the controlling force in India.
We get a glimpse of how the British lived in India, the central role played by the East India Company, and how a commercial base developed into political control.

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british empire history Documentaries 2016

At its peak, the British Empire was the largest formal empire that the world had ever know...

british empire history Documentaries 2016

At its peak, the British Empire was the largest formal empire that the world had ever known. As such, its power and influence stretched all over the globe; shaping .
History of the British Empire | HistoryDocumentary Films The historiography of the British Empire refers to the studies, sources, critical methods and .
History Of The British Empire - Documentary The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or .
Thank you for watching ! If you enjoyed it, like and subscribe please. You can let me know in the comments what is your opinion on the topic of the video.

🇬🇧 The Sun Never Sets | Empire

Britannia, so the song went, ruled the waves, and for more than a century, much of the planet - in 1922 that was 458 million people, and 33,670000 square kilometres, one quarter of the world's population and total land mass.
But since World War II, the United Kingdom has been in terminal decline.
Today, Britain is a fifth rate military power, and a fifth rate economic force, a country that cannot even win at sports it invented - see cricket, rugby and tennis.
And yet London still decides the fate of 16 overseas territories, with a grand total of 230-odd-thousand people, who still claim to be members of the British Commonwealth.
But Britain also helped decide the fate of millions of Iraqis when Tony Blair, the then British prime minister, unilaterally decided to back George Bush, the then US president, in his illegal invasion.
So what gives this faded island off the coast of Europe the right to act like a global power player? What is so great about Great Britain?
Social Media links:
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/ajenglish
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Britain Blood and Steel: Engineering an Empire

"The sun never sets on the British Empire" - for years, these words of pride and optimism were used to describe the largest empire in history: Britain. At its pinnacle, the empire spanned every continent and covered one quarter of the Earth's land mass.
Through the centuries, the rulers of this enormous powerhouse used extraordinary engineering feats to become an industrial and military titan, loaded with riches.
Some of their many pioneering accomplishments include the world's first locomotive, a superhighway of underground sewers, the imposing and grand Westminster Palace, and the most powerful and technically advanced navy in the age of sail.
As scandal, violence and drama consumed British royalty at home, the empire surged ahead with these works of engineering innovation that paved the way for the modern world.
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Rise and Fall of the British Empire

The History of the British Empire from the birth of Wessex to the end of decolonization.
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Jeremy Paxman traces the story of the greatest empire the world has ever known: the British Empire. He continues his personal account of Britain's empire by looking at how traders, conquerors and settlers spread the British way of doing things around the world - in particular how they created a very British idea of home.
He begins in India, where early traders wore Indian costume and took Indian wives. Their descendants still cherish their mixed heritage. Victorian values put a stop to that as interracial mixing became taboo.
In Singapore, he visits a club where British colonials gathered together, in Canada he finds a town whose inhabitants are still fiercely proud of the traditions of their Scottish ancestors, in Kenya he meets the descendants of the first white settlers - men whose presence came to be bitterly resented as pressure for African independence grew.
And he traces the story of an Indian family in Leicester whose migrations have been determined by the changing fortunes of the British empire.

Ten Minute History - The Late British Empire (Short Documentary)

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Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4973164
This episode of Ten MinuteHistory (like a documentary, only shorter) covers the growth of the British Empire after the American Revolution all the way to its end with the handover of Hong Kong. The first half deals with the Pax Britannica and British global hegemony through the Sepoy mutiny. The second half deals with the apex of the empire after World War One and its subsequent decline and fall.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tenminhistory
Ten Minute History is a series of short, ten minute animated narrative documentaries that are designed as revision refreshers or simple introductions to a topic. Please note that these are not meant to be comprehensive and there's a lot of stuff I couldn't fit into the episodes that I would have liked to. Thank you for watching, though, it's always appreciated.

BBC Empire Episode 3: Playing the Game

British Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom. It originated with the overseas possessions and trading posts established by England between the late 16th and early 18th centuries. At its height, it was the largest empire in history and, for over a century, was the foremost global power. By 1922 the British Empire held sway over about 458 million people, one-fifth of the world's population at the time, and covered more than 13,000,000sqmi (33,670,000km2), almost a quarter of the Earth's total land area. As a result, its political, legal, linguistic and cultural legacy is widespread. At the peak of its power, the phrase "the empire on which the sun never sets" was often used to describe the British Empire, because its expanse around the globe meant that the sun was always shining on at least one of its territories.

During the Age of Discovery in the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal and Spain pioneered European exploration of the globe, and in the process established large overseas empires. Envious of the great wealth these empires generated, England, France, and the Netherlands began to establish colonies and trade networks of their own in the Americas and Asia. A series of wars in the 17th and 18th centuries with the Netherlands and France left England (and then, following union between England and Scotland in 1707, Great Britain) the dominant colonial power in North America and India.

(Warning. This post contains spoilers from Season 4, Episode 18 of Empire, "The Empire Unpossess'd." Read at your own risk.)It's not an Empire finale unless somebody bites the dust (or nearly does so) in bitter, dramatic fashion and Wednesday's shocking season-ender was no exception .......

(Warning. This post contains spoilers from Season 4, Episode 18 of Empire, "The Empire Unpossess'd." Read at your own risk.)It's not an Empire finale unless somebody bites the dust (or nearly does so) in bitter, dramatic fashion and Wednesday's shocking season-ender was no exception .......